#spot checks

[afinickyguide]

episode 110: spot checks 🌿👀🍅

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Mon certificat d'attestation ? C'est quelque part ici...enfin ç'est mon avis.

I know this photo is in poor taste but so has been this anti-Covid French lock down thus far. 

One of my older neighbours in my apartment building is a long retired decorated senior general and whose crusty political views and curmudgeonly ways I find strangely bemusing and endearing. I regularly played chess with him during the year of lockdown and I’ve come to think his bark is worse than his bite. But even I was taken aback when he said the current lockdown with its 7pm curfew, 10 km travel limit, ID card, and official travel permission papers was like living through Vichy France again. I thought that a tad exaggerated. Not that I would know of course.

Since April 5th, the Direction Générale de la Police Nationale (DGPN) stepped up the number and frequency of police checks at airports, railway stations, motorway toll points, and other random highway stops. As things stood, anyone planning a trip that takes them outside a 10km radius of their home had to have a valid reason and to carry an attestation. There were exceptions and these ‘compelling reasons’ for travel include business trips but also those linked to a family reason, such as accompanying or fetching a child from a parent, a grandparent, or a relative.

Those found not to have compelling reasons for their journey can be fined €135, rising to €200 in the event of a repeat offence within 15 days, and again to €3,750 and up to 6 months' imprisonment for a third offence in 30 days. Nearly 100,000 police and gendarmerie checks were carried out at the first weekend in April in France, and 17,000 fines issued to those caught out.

But there seems to be light at the end of this dark tunnel with the lifting of all restrictions by the end of June. We shall see.

I have every sympathy for the government to try and get this pandemic under control but so far it’s been a comedy of errors with it pathetic vaccination drive and no one is laughing. It’s all terribly frustrating.

[freakofliterature]

my family has been through so fucking much and this evening racial spot checks are starting in the greater Dallas area please stay safe, keep your loved ones and neighbors as protected as possible

[loremerchant]

In the D&D universe, dog owners constantly have to make Spot checks.

[incisiveredneck]

Go kick some ass, Ms. Lawrence.

Onlookers described their shock at the operations, with one member of the public saying it was akin to "Nazi Germany". The Labour MP Barry Gardiner has now written to the Home Secretary, Theresa May, demanding an investigation into the checks which he said violated "fundamental freedoms". The raids come just a few months after Ms May took direct responsibility for immigration from the disbanded UK Border Agency.

"We do not yet live in a society where the police or any other officers of the law are entitled to detain people without reasonable justification and demand their papers," Mr Gardiner wrote. "The actions of your department would however appear to be hastening us in that direction."

British people, at the very least, make calling someone out look badass in a Mr. Belvedere kind of way.